Here is the hot, new theory as to why Donald Trump has been acting like such an ass lately:

Trump has no real roots in the Republican Party. He has been both a registered Republican and a registered Democrat. He has made campaign contributions to Republicans such as John McCain and George W. Bush and to Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel.

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“I go for the person, not necessarily the party,” he has said. “I mean, I vote for Republicans and I vote for Democrats.”

While not an unreasonable statement, it is not what Republicans usually look for in a GOP presidential nominee.

And while Trump’s personal life is not outrageous by today’s standards — he has been married three times and said in 2006, when he was 59, that his daughter, then 24, “does have a very nice figure; I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her” — it probably does not meet the definition of traditional Republican family values, even if those values are sometimes breached more than observed.

So Trump, entertaining notions of running for the Republican nomination, desperately needed an entrée to what he perceives as the heart and soul of the party. And that entrée, Trump decided, was the scurrilous and discredited “birther” attack against President Barack Obama.

The details of “birtherism” don’t bear repeating since they have all been refuted by nonpartisan sources. And while not all birthers are racists by any means, the movement was fueled in the beginning by people who could not accept the fact that a black man is the legitimate president of the United States. And so they had to delegitimize him by claiming he was born outside the United States.

According to the hot, new theory, Trump does not really buy into the nonsense of birtherism, and once he has established himself with Republican regulars, he will abandon it, announcing that his investigators could find no proof that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of this country.

Prominent conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly fed this notion in late March, when he interviewed Trump, who said of Obama, “If he wasn’t born in this country, it’s one of the great scams of this time.”

To which O’Reilly replied: “It’s provocative. I think it gets a lot of attention, but I don’t think you believe it.”

1) If you are in debt, spend more money than you have and you will get out of debt. 2) Illegal immigrants are worth having because they result in votes, even if they bankrupt our nation 3) Marriage is a disposable concept 4) Embryos are just a cancerous growth on a female that must be removed immediately 5) We must apologize to our enemies for our existance and hope they pity us instead of attacking us 6) Health care is a right 7) Unemployment payments are the best stimulus for the economy 8) High gas prices are a good energy policy 9) Stealing money from wealthy productive people will address our deficit issue 10) Government is the solution to all our problems

Have you checked out the article in the Times today: "New Guidelines Allow Early Definition of Alzheimers"?

Trump has gone from "gushing" over Barack Obama's accomplishments to "worst President ever" without a blush. That might be merely "odd" but it does seem more like *bizarre*.

However, there's no doubt that his obsession with the "birther" business is pure lunacy. He believes it. He really does. When an intelligent person (and Trump is not stupid) believes such stuff,we generally say that's crazy. Or is it early Alzheimer's?... I'm just saying.

Remember Reagan? He ticked off the Republican Party too and could care less. And, of course. he was considered a light-weight, just an actor. I'll bet Nancy had to rein him in at times.

It's a disgrace that no one is there to shut Trump up on the birther issue. How does this look abroad? A prominent businessman daily insulting the President of the United States AND who might actually become the Republican candidate!!

Have you checked out the article in the Times today: "New Guidelines Allow Early Definition of Alzheimers"?

Trump has gone from "gushing" over Barack Obama's accomplishments to "worst President ever" without a blush. That might be merely "odd" but it does seem more like *bizarre*.

However, there's no doubt that his obsession with the "birther" business is pure lunacy. He believes it. He really does. When an intelligent person (and Trump is not stupid) believes such stuff,we generally say that's crazy. Or is it early Alzheimer's?... I'm just saying.

Remember Reagan? He ticked off the Republican Party too and could care less. And, of course. he was considered a light-weight, just an actor. I'll bet Nancy had to rein him in at times.

It's a disgrace that no one is there to shut Trump up on the birther issue. How does this look abroad? A prominent businessman daily insulting the President of the United States AND who might actually become the Republican candidate!!

Have you checked out the article in the Times today: "New Guidelines Allow Early Definition of Alzheimers"?

Trump has gone from "gushing" over Barack Obama's accomplishments to "worst President ever" without a blush. That might be merely "odd" but it does seem more like *bizarre*.

However, there's no doubt that his obsession with the "birther" business is pure lunacy. He believes it. He really does. When an intelligent person (and Trump is not stupid) believes such stuff,we generally say that's crazy. Or is it early Alzheimer's?... I'm just saying.

Remember Reagan? He ticked off the Republican Party too and could care less. And, of course. he was considered a light-weight, just an actor. I'll bet Nancy had to rein him in at times.

It's a disgrace that no one is there to shut Trump up on the birther issue. How does this look abroad? A prominent businessman daily insulting the President of the United States AND who might actually become the Republican candidate!!

Republicans are stupid. Or arrogant and bought off by the Chamber of Commerce, etc. for so long that they have no grasp of reality. Take your pick. They will keep the never ending Republican Wars going until 20??. It is hating America if you even question when they might think of the end of our spilling 2 billion a week over there…..and the kids who die there. They wrap themselves in Old Glory, clutch the constitution and lecture us on how the founders of the U.S.A. wanted war on nations that are no threat to us….That Thomas Jefferson wanted Nation Building and invasion of Third World Nations…and Ike was an old fart when he warned us of this…….they cut taxes for the Rich….Who ( to quote Jack Welch, former CEO of G.E.) put their plants on barges and trolled the world for the cheapest wages, outsourced jobs, hid their money in the Bahamas and The Caymon Islands, then got the Republicans to give them Tax amnesty to bring it back in …tax free basically. Business……people…saints that they are…Who do you think has been hiring illegal workers? In Florida and Georgia…it is Republican State Senators , working with the Chamber of Commerce, to gut any attempt to enforce Immigration laws.all

Yes, Wikipedia has told us that the reason this issue should die is that a search for records would only lead to more requests for records. In other words, research is bad. When asked about the hospital of record, Gibbs would not answer. Most of us born thirty years or so ago, have a retro looking document. You would think Obama could have posted a document that at least looked like it was from that time period. Half of the political Left will jump on the latest conspiracy theory about JFK and UFO's, based on a document that has been tested to see if it was from that period. Such testing of course would not be allowed to even be discussed. We are in the Disinformation Age. This is the President's Painted Corner -- there is a b/c and it's in a fire-proof vault. We don't know his grades in college, his papers, really, there's scant documentation, period. He was "vetted" by Time magazine and its 13 glossy covers and McCain, who spent his career kissing up to the Press to get favorable coverage. We do not live in a society that believes in critical thinking in this case.